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Clinical / Forensic Psychologist | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 31 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,178 - £55,492 per annum including Outer London Allowance |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 30 June 2024 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 8JL |
| Company: | Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6337553/306-BEH-1973 |
Summary
Band 7 Clinical or Forensic Psychologist
North London Forensic Service
Looking for somewhere to establish your career in forensic mental health or for a change? The North London Forensic Service (NLFS) is recruiting Clinical or Forensic Psychologists to our inpatient services. There are opportunities to work in medium, low and learning disability services. It is an exciting time to join our service as we continue to embed trauma-informed practices, alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues and Experts By Experience.
With a large psychology team, NLFS benefits from a wealth of experience and expertise. A range of training and CPD opportunities are available, and the opportunity to contribute to active Research and Quality Improvement Forums.
As a Trust, we adopt trauma-informed recovery-based approaches to human distress, including psychosis, substance misuse and complex offending behaviour, using a wide range of therapeutic approaches. Medium to long term work is the norm.
3 WTE band 7 posts are available, with options of full/part-time, flexible, hybrid working. Two of the roles will be based on our main site at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, and one of the posts will be a split post also working at a low secure ward in Edmonton/Enfield).
Delivering an autonomous psychological service, incl. assessments/interventions (group and individual), consultation/training, forensic risk assessment using high level communication skills to convey complex/sensitive information to patients, colleagues and external agencies is essential.
Please direct any enquiries to:
- LD/A role: Dr Rebecca Williams, Forensic Psychologist (02087026555; rebecca.williams54@nhs.net)
- LSU/MSU role: Sara Boulter, Head of Therapies (0208 702 6041; sara.boulter@nhs.net) or Dr Benny Bhanot (benny.bhanot@nhs.net)
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars.In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to detained patients within the inpatient services at the North London Forensic Service (including low and medium secure wards). The successful candidate will support the provision of psychological interventions as part of a multidisciplinary team including leading on the delivery of psychology within the team. This will include the provision of highly specialist and expert psychological assessment and interventions, in addition to contributing to developing research, offering supervision, consultancy training and reflective practice to psychology staff and other clinicians, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The use of research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the North London Forensic Service will also be required.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Jun 2024